Sunday, 2 August 2015

Holdover box office for the weekend.

                          Ant-Man, which grossed $12.6 million in its third weekend. Marvel’s latest is now at $132.1 million Stateside, and $291.6 million globally.
                          Minions. Universal’s animated spinoff brought home another $12.2 million over the weekend, raising its domestic total to $287.3 million.
                          Pixels, fell 56.7 percent from its opening weekend to make $10.4 million this week. The Adam Sandler vehicle has only mustered a paltry $45.6 million domestically so far. It is getting saved in the foreign markets, as the worldwide total is currently at $102.1 million.  
                           Romantic-comedy Trainwreck earned $9.7 million this weekend . Amy Schumer’s first major feature film has now made an impressive $79.7 million domestically at this point in its run.
                          Southpaw earned $7.5 million this weekend. The boxing drama is at $31.5 million domestically.  
                          John Greene adaptation Paper Towns took a drastic 63.6 percent slide from its opening weekend totals and grossed only $4.6 million to finish eighth. Illustrating the limited appeal of its source material, the film has grossed $23.8 million so far
                           Inside Out places at #9 this week with $4.5 million. Pixar’s smash hit has made $329.5 million in the U.S. so far.
                          Finishing off the top ten is Jurassic World, which made $3.8 million and is now at a whopping $631.5 million domestically. Though the film has passed The Avengers on both the U.S. and international box office charts, it seems like it will have to “settle” for the title of third biggest film of all-time.

Mission Impossible-Rogue Nation scores high this weekend.

                                        The latest installment of the Tom Cruise spy saga Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation debuted with a pretty strong $56 million opening weekend. It is a great win for the superstar as few of his last films were not able to perform to the same level at the box office. Riding with strong reviews and positive word of mouth the went on to have Tom Cruise’s third-biggest opening weekend ever.That barely misses the franchise record for largest opening, which is still held by 2000’s Mission: Impossible 2 at $57.8 million. As of yesterday, the film earned $65 million from its overseas debut, in markets that made up 40% of the total foreign marketplace, for a $121m global debut. That’s around 49% better than the prior film’s respective debut in those respective territories. Ghost Protocol made a ridiculous $485m overseas.


                                         The other new release, Vacation , which is a sequel to the original Vacation,  opened on Wednesday with $3.8 million and earned another $2.5m on Thursday. As such, its $14.8m weekend brings its cume to $21.172m thus far.